Actress Anne Heche is not expected to survive the injuries she sustained in a collision and subsequent vehicle fire last week, her family said in a statement Thursday night.
“Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition,” the statement, shared with The Washington Post, read. “She is not expected to survive.”
The statement added that Heche is being kept alive on life support to determine whether any of her organs are viable to donate. The representative told The Post that Heche is “brain dead.” “Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” the statement added. “She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”Heche, 53, was hospitalized last Friday after she drove her Mini Cooper into a house in Los Angeles’s Mar Vista neighborhood, causing the vehicle and the house.
An initial test of Heche’s blood found narcotics in her system, Officer Tony Im, a spokesman with the Los Angeles Police Department, told The Post. But a second test is being performed to determine whether those substances were present because of her medical treatment, he added. Heche rose to fame after appearing in the soap opera “Another World” starting in the 1980s. She later starred in films such as “Donnie Brasco,” “Six Days, Seven Nights” and “Volcano,” and she was known for her 3 ½-year relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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